Ralph & Ed, or Flyers & Bruins?

I am so wrapped up in year-end and decade-end stories right now that I haven’t even considered what Mrs. Carp and I will do New Year’s Eve.

But I have a dilemma New Year’s Day. The Winter Classic (are you allowed to say that without including the sponsor’s title, or will the NHL come after me?). I think it’s a pretty cool idea and a very cool game to watch, and it might be even cooler — literally and figuratively — if it snows that day, as expected.

Which makes me wonder, what if we get a blizzard? Or worse, what if it rains?

Anyway, the NHL has bombarded us with ads for this game, and so has NBC. Obviously trying to jack ratings as high as possible, rope in casual fans, etc. We hockey fans are well aware of it already, thank you.

My problem is this: The Honeymooners marathon starts at midnight New Year’s Eve and goes all day — 39 episodes — on Channel 11. Any of you guys with me on this? Can you possibly turn away from The Honeymooners if it’s on?

Depending on the episode, I can turn away from time to time to see what’s going on at Fenway.

The NHL website just posted Team Slovakia Roster and Miro Satan is on it. It also says that he currently plays with “No Club”. With Prospal getting hurt, I think the Rangers should try and sign him to a super cheap deal (especially if he plays well with Gabby) during the Olympics.

Plus, he is an Ex-Sabre so that might help Drury and Kotalik play a little better

i don’t like dvr or tivo because i find that i never watch what I record. but if it’s on live, i watch it. Do it with Honeymooners, Seinfelds, Godfather, stuff like that. I can watch it whenever I want, but I never do unless it’s on live. why do you suppose that is?

It’s the strangest thing but if it’s New Years Eve I find myself glued to the Honeymooners marathon. I have all the episodes on DVD but for some reason it just makes me feel better to watch the marathon. I guess it goes back to my Pop and watching it,with him, every night at 11:00 on WPIX, it just brings back some really good memories.

OneCup – agree that NBC is an absolutely awful network to air this game, but there is still something special about the game itself. The initial novelty is gone, for sure, but each venue adds its own element that still makes it a unique event. IMHO…

I think the NHL needs to get a little more creative than using baseball stadiums as their choice of venue. First off, unless they build seating near the rink itself, even the best views in the stadium are much further away from the action than in an arena. This doesn’t even touch on the views from the upper deck seats at a large stadium.

Instead of Yankee Stadium (or doubtfully Citi Field), how about they do a Winter Classic in Central Park? But if they can construct a rink in the middle of Wrigley or Fenway then they can do it in the middle of Sheeps Meadow or some other open field. And if the NHL really wanted to get great exposure, host the game for free (while still charging for concessions and merchandise). Put seats closer to the rink and just make it a more public event. I think the game is a great idea, just needs a little extra thought put into it.

Love the Winter Classic. Hate the 2 teams. I will catch up when NHL Network runs their 5 day marathon replay of the game some night when I can’t sleep. This game is losing its novelty. I will be interested when the game is at Yankee Stadium and the Rangers are in it.

How aboot the new stadium in the Meadowlands. Rangers vs Debbies. The sight lines would be better than Yankme Stadium or Citifield. I would also like Central Park, Rangers vs that team on Long Island that shall not be named. But the logistics would be crazy, they would have to build HUGE bleachers, and locker rooms etc.

If you ever in Brooklyn and around avenue X and west 3rd…try “Knapp Pizza II” or “Di Fara Pizzeria” on ave J corner of east 15th i think. Di Fara is definitely one of the old and best pizza places in New York. :)

Papa John’s got me through some tough times in college. And by tough I mean they were the only place that delivered at like 1:30 AM. But since that was the only late night choice I was faced with hunger or subpar pizza, stale breadsticks and garlic butter that must have been an offshoot of movie theatre popcorn butter.

My first meals when I would come back to NY for breaks during the year was usually either Chinese food or pizza. One time I brought back a dozen bagels for my apartment-mates and they were devoured by the 2nd day.

Carp You’re spot on with your TV viewing. Watch only live and you have no obligation to go back and watch all the warehoused Tivoed shows. I, on the other hand, have about 3 mos. worth of tivoed programs that I’ll probably never watch. You’re far more efficient.

If we verse online we use the updated rosters, so you wouldn’t have Nicky Z. I hope you’ve been practicing, cause I’m in a bad video game mood, the club I’m with has been taking some beat downs, so I’m really grumpy. Plus I lost connection in my last game aganst FIRE when I was close to getting back in it.

I think the NHL should go all mystery alaska on the winter classic….take it to the frozin ponds of canada or minnesota or something!! Grassroots baby!! I see pond hockey is going to be on the NHL network this week!!

wicky…the annual US pond hockey championships are going on at the end of January in Minnesota. They have 25 rinks set up on Lake Nokomis. Teams from around the world come to play. Unfortunately I’ve never played but I know guys who have and they say it’s a great time.

The trickle-up process, for now, will work like this: Christopher Higgins will take Prospal’s spot on the top line’s left wing with Brandon Dubinsky and Marian Gaborik, Ales Kotalik will again join the top nine forwards and Erik Christensen will rejoin the lineup. Christensen, in fact, may also see some power play time, now.

Pizza and Wings definitely got me through college too. That, along with Ramen noodles and cereal. If you had meal plan at my school, they had this late night snack time that opened at midnight, and they would just bring out all these pizzas and wings. It looked like zombies waiting to get in to the mall full of people when the clock struck 12. I blame the “Midnight feeding” as I called it, for me gaining a crap load of weight my sophomore and junior year of school. The only good that came of that was when I played intramural hockey, although it slowed me down, nobody could clear me from the crease, ha.

If we trade Kotalik just a few months into his 3-year deal… So yet another case where we sign a guy, then Sather has to immediately double-back to cover his mistake (ie. Rissmiller). Ugh. He has to go.

Anyone have any suggestions on a good game for me to get for the 360? Right now I only have NHL 10. I barely have time to play because of my kids occupying the TV, but I think I need another cool game to play.

Who got us all this dead weight in the first place? The largest dead weight is ol’ Stogypuss himself. And if by some miracle we get rid of some of these guys, what new, different and more expensive dead weights will the Lion For A Day hang around the neck of this team?

Ya got the Twilight zone marathon on scifi.That beats the Honeymooners.Then there”s the Three Stooges marathon on Spike TV,they also beat the Honeymooners.So no Carp I’ll easily pass on the Honeymooners.Not to mention the bowl game’s.
WE ARE PENN ST.

CT, you are damn right they do. Clutch is simply amazing in nhl 10. Sometimes I take penalties just to get Boyle and Dru out there. They score shorthanded for me almost every game, and sometimes twice a game. They give Boyle a heavy accurate shot. If you launch one and crash net with dru for a rebound, you are almost always sure to get a goal or a great scoring chance.

I played 09 on the PS3 last night at my bros for the first time. The controls are almost exactly the same, except for when you shoot. In the ps3 one, how you shoot changes from when you are skating down or skating up. I am not sure that you can make it that way on xbox. It messed me up for a bit, but I scored two in the 3rd to tie, and then won in the shootout because nobody else knew what they were doing. HA

Every time that douche Pierre “I annoy everyone” McGuire speaks, I flip to the honeymooners.

“Now address the ball. HELLOOO ball!”

IT sucks Vinny is hurt, but what better barometer to have then to play the guys you’ve been benching and see what they can provide?

I hope Christensen uses his scond line ice time and possible PP time to his advantage, and ours.

Hell even Voros, who Im always screaming about demoting or trading, if he plays good and fights maybe then we can jsut sit old man Brashear? He is definitely been absolutely useless this entore season so far.

And is Drury definitely out for tomorrow nights game? Personal reasons?

I’m going to the afternoon game on Saturday (wife got us tickets) Section 63 which is the cloest I have ever been in the garden to the ice. (She got them from one of her bosses at work)

Nasty – MW2 looks awesome, watched the fiance (ooooh first time I’ve said that) play it over the weekend. I started Arkham Asylum last night and played for 2 hours, also Left 4 Dead 2 is pretty awesome

what the….i totally vote for warren. it’s not the biggest or most raucous sports bar in the city, but it only plays the game on every tv and you’ll be surrounded by fans. and come on, it’s aves’….i think you’ll both have fun…and say hi to TR!

CCCP,
Just “enjoyed” my 2nd hard attack (this time with open heart surgery- 3-le bypass) and lost my job in a same time. Rangers loosing strike before didn’t help either. Nice holiday pakage.Got all hockey and some blog news from my kids. Just started watch and read again. THANK you so much for even remembering me (become too sensitive). To all fellow blogers, except depends and “youknowwho” one post happy hannukah/mery Christmas/kwanza/and Happy Healthy and Lucky New Year. CCCP and ilb2001 Zdorovja i glavnoe Udachi.Spasibo, bratva!

to bad it wasn’t the bruins of cherry,cheevers,middleton,park,terry o,jonathan,wensick,cashman vs shero,baber,clarke,kelly,leach,mcleach,dupont,bridgeman.Now that would be good hangover hockey and btw no bettman. Memories.

TR, good job on that blog traffic research … except for some reason Alexa doesn’t include Lohud’s mammoth Yankees blog (which does about 10 times the traffic as we do here at Festivus). Maybe because it’s listed as lhblogs.com, not lohudblogs.com like the others. But pile that one in there, and lohud’s doing pretty well. Too bad we can’t find a way to make money off it.

4everanger I had my first heart attack last year after I was laid off and after I couldn’t afford my COBRA. 3 days in the hospital STENT put in, all for a sweet $100,000. No job, no insurance, no problems, yea bankruptcy. Just celebrated my 2nd year of unemployment; F#$%^*! economy. But looking forward to the Stooges!

Go get MW2 now!! By far the sickest game I have ever played. I have ps3 but I cant imagine 360 is any different. Too many cool things to explain, but an amazing 1 player, or co-op or on-line game. cant go wrong with mw2.

have you played gta4? I was playing that until i got mw2 for christmas.

i have, but haven’t played infamous and arkham asylum. I have two kids who dominate the tv, so i can only play after they are in bed.

Blogmama:
Here’s some French Canadian for ya:
High-sticking happen when the guy take the stick, you know, and he go like that
[high-sticks Jim Carr]
Denis Lemieux: you know. You don’t do that.
Jim Carr: You don’t do that?
Denis Lemieux: Oh no, never, never.
Jim Carr: Why not?
Denis Lemieux: Against the rules. You know, you’re stupid when you do that. Just some English pig with no brains, you know.

Hooray 4 the Chiefs!
Almost same here. After Ist time they put stents, few month later 100% clogged.
ilb2001
North Shore/LIJ in Manhasett.Wonderful doc.-God blesses him!
CARP,
Yeah, realisticaly speaking I would’t count on that.

Jonny LaRue
Can’t someone be smart for a change and put on an SCTV marathon? I mean between yourself, Guy Calalero, Peenie Scleroso, Sid Dithers, Edith Prickly, Bill Needle, the MacKenzie Brothers, etc. you had a heck of an LMAO run in the Great White North. . .Koo-ruk-Ka-koo-ka-ruk-ku-ku
Until that time it’s the Stooges all the way with Avery and Curley, Hartnell as Larry and, if he dyed his hair, Glen (Bernie) Sather as Moe.

Johnny Larue,
As well as “The Days Of The Week”.
I have yet to see the classic ‘Joe DiMaggio’ skit. It was hard in NY staying up to see the entire show on Friday night starting at 1 AM after watching ‘Friday’s’ (with of all people, Larry (Mr. Doody) David).

Off to play hockey at the Icehouse in Hackensack (with my home from school son who I have a perosnal services contract to play with us old men to keep us from totally enmbarassing ourselves in Div 7). GITLERS GORILLAS RULE !!!!!
As long as I can play I can put the Rangers roller coaster season in perspective. Not having Sather around to screw it up more would make it even better.

Judge: [To Curly] Take off your hat. Now raise your right hand. Now place your left hand here. [in order to do so, the hat goes back on his head] Take off your hat. Raise your right hand. Now put your left hand here. [Hat back on head] Please take off your hat. Raise your right hand! Now put your left hand here! Will you please take off your hat! Raise your right hand! Now put your left hand here! Take off your hat! Raise your right hand! Would you get rid of that hat!

My roommate in college ordered so much Domino’s that he used to have the delivery guy stop at a deli and get him beer and cigarettes too.

doodie- same with me. i usede to order pizza from alfredo’s in ridge almost everyday for lunch at work, then on a saturday me n my co-worker buddy ordered a pizza,extra cheese and told the guy to pick me up a 6 pack of hineys. the guy did it too!! i was amazed. so from then on whenever i called and placed an order, hed joke and say “would you like anything to eat to go with your order!!”. one time i just ordered a 12 pack lol. the gas station was next door so he was cool about it. ahh ny. only in ny!!

izzy, where is everybody?? is it just me n u stringbean?? im watchin canada vs baby gaboriks(slovakia) its already 3-0. even though i wish the olympics were held after or before hockey season, its still great to wqtch. besides us who u rootin for
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wick, huh? minnesotans? anyway, i proposed a trade for u. im in first, so if i were u id jump on any deal i threw at ya! no but lets team up against mako and somerset. theyre tryin to dethrone me. lets make some deals to strengthen each others teams weaknesses

LOL Mike I called ya Batpoop for that trade offer. J-bo NOOOOOOOOOOOOO offense. Campbell will start to heat up and Green is always a stud. I had to fill in the other two D spots…. Haisey was doing didley squat for me.

engblom just called nashville, nassville lol. hes such a geek!! whats with older retired hockey players and their 80’s hairdo’s??? i mean duguay prime example. who he think he is, bon jovi?? with the earring that looks so fem

mako- i said jaybo is just a starting point. i was willing to part with chara,neidarmayer, or yandle who is really rackin up points in phoenix!. dude, im the best in the league for how long now?? u probably should want some of my players!!! goin on 2 and haf months on top now somethings gotta be right in grabby land!! hah batpoop!! i did try to pull a fast oen on ya though didnt i? lol

LOL I was hosed on draft day… started 12th lost miserably the first 2 weeks and climbed up the bonehead ladder ;) Now Im nipping at your ankles. I smell blood….. MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAH I wish I could get Gaborik from my other team onto this one LOL

I( recall Ed Norton (
Art Carney). He lived a couple miles down the road from me when I was still in CT..he had a home in Westbrookon the shoreline, and lived very quietly..well liked by the town folk, who just r=treated him casually like one of them..no fan adoration orAm I was going into the little convenience store in Westbrook, and when I was coming in he was goping out and I didn’t see him opening the door and bumped into it. I apoligzed and he quietly apologized and tell the truth I knew he looked familiar, but couldn’t plalce him because for one thing it never occurred to me he might be a local.

Later on now and then I’d see him around town and no one paid much attention to him. I found out that he often played chess with the son of one of my daughter in laws, who also had a summer home on the beach, and he was just another Westbrooker to us by then. That’s the way it was also with Catherine Hepburn who lived in the next township Old Saybrook and she lived for years and years. Treated just the same. Quiet stars. No splash and dash, no crudities, no problems. Don’t make many like that any more.